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Yorkshire Wages Fight Gather's Impetus

18th November 1939
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

letters which Yorkshire 1V1hauliers sent. to the Road Haulage Central Wages Board, registering objections to that body's scheme of wages and general working conditions for A and B-licence holders' employees, were passed .on for submission to the Yorkshire Area Wages Board at its meeting in Leeds, laSt week.

Various points of objection raised in the letters were -discussed," but it is gathered that the Area Board failed to reach recommendations on any of them, because of the absence of agreement between the employers' panel and the workers' panel. The employers,_ it is understood, reiterated their desire for various amendments to the scheme, but the workers' representatives opposed such amendments. It was, therefore, left for the two panels to forward their own respective observations

iralepenclerifly to the Central Board.

In the letters of objection, the contention that wage scales no higher than Grade 2 should be imposed in Yorkshire was put forward in no uncertain • voice. Protests were also made against the Central Board's proposal to put Scarborough into the Grade 2 wages category, instead of Grade 3, as under the old National Joint Conciliation Board's scheme.

In explanation of the Central Board's proposal, it has been suggested that Scarborough is an important fishing -port. .This suggestfon was strongly disputed, the point being stressed that Scarborough is primarily

• a seaside resort, but with only a sixweeks' season, in contrast to the lengthy season at Blackpool and the extended holiday activities at a number of southern seaside places.


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